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British electronic cigarettes are experiencing a bad period: there is no wind without wind, and electronic cigarettes are controversial

British electronic cigarettes are experiencing a bad period: there is no wind without wind, and electronic cigarettes are controversial

2023-03-15

According to news on March 15, it is reported that British electronic cigarettes are experiencing a bad period. In recent months, issues such as illegal imports, sales to minor customers, and some products have not complied with British regulations.


News reports more concerned about the industry's problems, not its most obvious advantages: electronic smoke is healthier than smoking.


Even this virtue is questioned at least because of its limitations. As a healthier modern alternative image of traditional smoking, electronic cigarettes are still quite stable, but many people still want to figure out the smaller health risks that electronic cigarettes may bring (such as patients with asthma) and these risks can be quantified quantified Credibility.


Studies take time. Electronic cigarettes are a young business, so the research on its potential impact is far less advanced than research on tobacco. Evidence (meeting board) on illegal products and practices not only comes from law enforcement agencies, but also from the research of mainstream manufacturers of electronic cigarette industry. Many of them are interested in business legitimacy and transparency like anyone.


Illegal product


JTI is a multinational company of tobacco and e -cigarettes. Its products include logic electronic cigarettes. It is one of the companies that study the seriousness of British issues. JTI's finance and regulatory manager Ian Howell said that its research shows that more than half of the disposable electronic smoke products sold in the UK do not meet the regulations, including excessive filling and the excess allowance of nicotine content.


Howell is not just a product that talks about blatant crimes or imported from other jurisdictions that are not as strict than the UK.


In one study, JTI said it studied 28 most common disposable electronic cigarettes in the UK and believed that 25 of them were unsatisfactory. Obviously, these include many daily necessities sold by completely honest convenience stores.


The difficulty of manufacturers has become obvious this year. Last month, the Chinese e -cigarette giant ELF BAR (one of the best -selling electronic cigarettes in the UK) apologized for "wholeheartedly" after some of its electronic cigarettes exceeded the limited 50% of the British legal nicotine.


Legal framework


Such stories highlight some issues in the electronic cigarette industry. Although the regulatory framework was formulated through the drug and health product regulatory agency (MHRA), in many cases, the supervision and implementation of these regulations seemed to have failed. MHRA formulates standards, but it does not test products regularly to ensure that they meet the requirements. It is largely a standard formulation agency, not a test agency.


Need transparency


James Lowman, chief executive of the Convenience Store Association, said after the ELF BAR incident was exposed that clarity was important. He added: Our members need MHRA to make a clear statement, which clearly states which products should be sold.


More generally, Lowman has a criticism of services currently provided by MHRA.


He said: This incident showed us the insufficient ability of the regulatory system to deal with the product that violated MHRA, especially when the product was marked as legal but the test showed that it was not compliant.


"There is also a huge problem in the market entering the market, which obviously violates British regulations, and the MHRA database is behind the market and is not friendly to users. Retailers need to follow our simple steps outlined in our" Guide to Sell Electronic Cigarettes ". The step is to check the number of suction times (any more than 600 times may be illegal) and check the warnings and wording on the packaging. "


Mo Razzaq, a member of the National Executive Committee of the Independence Retailer Federation, has similar concerns about the clarification of the current e -cigarette legislation. He added that NFRN also tried to establish an appropriate procedure for handling electronic cigarette products, mainly because according to British law, electronic products can be returned to retailers for appropriate treatment.


Nicotine strength


The public's concerns about the legitimacy of electronic cigarette products are even obvious in the propaganda of the manufacturer. This year, a small and important route in the launch of a new electronic cigarette product Imperial's Blu Bar has revealed in this regard.


Imperial has clearly sold its latest disposable product sales to complete compliance. Retailers may ask, why is anything else? In a market with strong confidence in compliance, such an assertion may be considered unnecessary.


John Dunn, the director of the British Electronic Cigarette Industry Association (UKVA), said that the problems facing companies are very complicated. This involves several issues, including many disposable electronics cigarettes for the US market. The United States has different regulations in Britain in terms of allowable cans and nicotine strength.


Deng En said that illegal imports of US electronic cigarette equipment are common, and some areas in the UK are particularly vulnerable to affected, including Greater Manchester.


Consumer demand


Dunne said illegal devices usually attract consumers, because some equipment provides a larger capacity -9,000, 10,000 or 15,000 mouths, and British restrictions are 400 to 500.


Deng En said: I often go out to confiscate these things with officials of trade standards. These things are usually imported from those who also import fake costumes or fakes.


He added that another problem is that the trade standard department responsible for the implementation of British regulations is very different in supervising illegal electronic cigarettes.


Some people have better resources than others. Dunn praised the efforts of the London Westminster Commission and raided them with them, including as many as 10 trade standard officials and police officers, while only one or two employees of other trade standard departments were trying to deal with their desks The workload. Dunn added that there are other problems.


One is that once the local authorities confiscate the electronic cigarettes, it takes money to deal with them. The budget of the local authorities was so nervous that he suspected that some parliament would rather not bear the cost of disposal, let alone provide human funds for the actions of confiscated products.


More resources


The answers to all these questions have been widely recognized. Almost everyone, except for those illegal people, hopes to invest more resources to execute it. UKVA hopes to impose a fine of £ 10,000 in illegal people, including those who import and sell illegal products, and anyone who sells products to underage customers.


Deng En also said that the permission system for electronic cigarette sellers will help eliminate irresponsible retailers. This should help prevent the number of electronic cigarettes selling electronic cigarettes to minors and protect the business of legal electronic cigarette manufacturers and retailers.


Rogue trader


Dunn severely criticized those who are currently trying to escape supervision.


He said: This is 100% greedy. Not every retailer, but a small number of people do not care about what they sell or sell them to. It is worth noting that the retailer of this subscrib includes not only rogue convenience stores, although some of them, other retailers also have.


UKVA has seen various stores selling electronic cigarettes, including barber shops, pizza shops and candy shops. This extensive usability -especially in candy store -may reflect a general feeling, that is, electronic cigarette products are not in the same moral scope as other products that are prohibited to children under 18 years old.


This kind of electronic cigarette does not seem to be valued like other minors' sales to some extent, and it seems to be the same for convenience stores. Loman said that one of the most puzzling things is that the convenience industry has a good record in regulating minors selling alcohol, cigarettes and lottery tickets. Nevertheless, it seems to have a strong feeling, that is, children are too easy to touch electronic cigarettes, although they have 18 years of age limit as alcohol or tobacco.


Lowman said: Like all other products with age, retailers should adopt strict Challenge25 policy, only accepting passports, driving licenses and PASS recognized age certificates as acceptable identity documents. Our department has excellent records in preventing minors' sales; we need to continue to meet the standards for selling electronic cigarettes and all age -restricted products.


The design of some electronic cigarettes is another problem. Dunne pointed out the form of the lollipop shape or the theme design of SpongeBob, in order to show that not everyone is pursuing a special adult market. If retailers inventory such products, they should know what problems have happened.


What is the rule?


John Herriman, CEO of Frank Trade Standards Association


Electronic cigarettes and electronic cigarettes are supervised by drug and health product regulatory agencies (MHRA). The electronic cigarette rules stipulated on the website stipulate that the manufacturer must:


烟 Limit the capacity of e -cigarette tanks does not exceed 2 ml

The maximum volume of the maximum volume of nicotine electronic liquid sold in a container is 10 ml

液 The concentration of nicotine that limits electronic liquids does not exceed 20 mg/ml

的 Requires the product or its packaging with nicotine is children's safety and anti -tampering

分 Forbidden certain ingredients, including pigmentation, caffeine and taurine

和 Including new label requirements and warnings

所有 Requires notifications and announced that all electronic cigarettes and electronic liquids are approved by MHRA before they can be sold.


The problem is that many devices confiscated by the trading standard team have violated these rules, and some people are worried that some equipment may be designed specifically for attracting children and young people. The packaging and flavors imitate popular candy brands such as rainbow sugar.


John Herriman, CEO of the Frank Trade Standards Association, said: Although we recognize that electronic cigarettes can help smokers quit smoking, we are worried that more and more illegal acts are sold at high prices in the UK.


Herriman also added that convenience stores are also selling non -compliant products.


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